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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
Author
Language
English
Description
Set against the turbulent months in 1974 when Boston's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Mary Pat Fennessy's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't return home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking...
6) Ruby Bridges
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
7) Ruby Bridges
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Provides a simple introduction to the life of Ruby Bridges and how Bridges stood up against racism and hatred to help integrate Louisiana's school system.
10) Through my eyes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
12) Root Magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
From debut writer Eden Royce comes a wondrous historical ghost story set in South Carolina in the 1960s—an unforgettable tale of courage, friendship, and Black Girl Magic.
It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year...
14) Ruby Bridges
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1997
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was the first African-American student to integrate her local elementary school in New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is a story full of hope, innocence, and courage--
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and CP. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. CP. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops leading the Durham chapter of the...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges shares her story and offers a call to action--
On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Roby Bridges become the first black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Escorted by federal marshals past angry segregationist protesters, young Ruby attended William Frantz Elementary and earned a place in civil rights history. Sixty years later, Ruby has written an impassioned letter to young people...
19) Ruby Bridges
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series--
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad), and information about the people involved and events leading up to and after the court case ruling"--
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